console chess

[Jude DaShiell]

I've not been current with email, but here's another answer and this 
program has been around for awhile.  It's called gnuchess and is available 
on debian as a package and is also available in the fedora archives as 
well.  I had gnuchess working under dos before I ever installed Linux for 
the first time and found the same interface in the Linux version when I 
installed that package some years ago.